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He answered me and said, "The Most High made this world for the sake of many, but the world to come for the sake of only a few.

2
But I tell you a parable, Ezra. Just as, when you ask the earth, it will tell you that it provides a large amount of clay from which earthenware is made, but only a little dust from which gold comes, so is the course of the present world.

References for 2 Esdras 8:5

6
O Lord above us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us a seed for our heart and cultivation of our understanding so that fruit may be produced, by which every mortal who bears the likeness c of a human being may be able to live.

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7
For you alone exist, and we are a work of your hands, as you have declared.

8
And because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb, and furnish it with members, what you have created is preserved amid fire and water, and for nine months the womb d endures your creature that has been created in it.

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36
For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and goodness will be declared, when you are merciful to those who have no store of good works."

37
He answered me and said, "Some things you have spoken rightly, and it will turn out according to your words.

38
For indeed I will not concern myself about the fashioning of those who have sinned, or about their death, their judgment, or their destruction;

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but I will rejoice over the creation of the righteous, over their pilgrimage also, and their salvation, and their receiving their reward.

40
As I have spoken, therefore, so it shall be.

41
"For just as the farmer sows many seeds in the ground and plants a multitude of seedlings, and yet not all that have been sown will come up p in due season, and not all that were planted will take root; so also those who have been sown in the world will not all be saved."

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44
But people, who have been formed by your hands and are called your own image because they are made like you, and for whose sake you have formed all things—have you also made them like the farmer's seed?

45
Surely not, O Lord r above! But spare your people and have mercy on your inheritance, for you have mercy on your own creation."

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48
But even in this respect you will be praiseworthy before the Most High,

49
because you have humbled yourself, as is becoming for you, and have not considered yourself to be among the righteous. You will receive the greatest glory,

50
for many miseries will affect those who inhabit the world in the last times, because they have walked in great pride.

51
But think of your own case, and inquire concerning the glory of those who are like yourself,

52
because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, t goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.

New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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